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Book Synopsis My Journey Into the Amish World by : Haley Straw
Download or read book My Journey Into the Amish World written by Haley Straw and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haley, a big city west coast girl moved to the Midwest and was introduced to the Amish people by a friend. Upon seeing her large twelve-passenger van they asked her to start driving for them. She didn't know what that meant. She didn't know a lot of things about the Amish.Prior to working for the Amish, she assumed a few things: She believed the Amish had no idea what they looked like; that they had never seen themselves in a mirror. Every Amish home Haley visited had at least one small mirror.She thought the Amish would not venture out of their communities in order to keep themselves separate from the world. Haley was surprised to learn that many Amish travel considerably.And finally, that the Amish lived a higher moral standard than the rest of us and so they must be closer to God, their families, and their communities. When a rumor spread around the Amish community that Haley was pregnant, she began to understand the Amish were prone to the same weaknesses the rest of us are.You're invited to journey with Haley into the real Amish world to see for yourself in these true stories.
Book Synopsis Called to Be Amish by : Marlene C. Miller
Download or read book Called to Be Amish written by Marlene C. Miller and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fewer than one hundred outsiders have joined the Old-Order Amish--and stayed--since 1950. Marlene C. Miller is one of them. In this rare memoir, Marlene recounts her unhappy and abusive childhood, how she throws herself into cheerleading and marching band, and how she falls in love with Johnny, the gentle young Amish man who helps her lace her ice skates. Against the wishes of both sets of parents, Marlene and Johnny get married and begin a family. Follow the author on this unusual journey to find out how God’s love called her out of bitterness and depression and into the warm embrace of her new Amish community. Accompany her as she dons an Amish dress and prayer covering and gets baptized. Learn how she endures the strain of ten children, a hundred-acre farm, and accidents and tragedy, and find out how she comes close to walking away from it all. Turning Amish has proven to be anything but plain and simple for this former majorette. But nearly fifty years later, Marlene is still living out God’s call as an Old Order Amish woman.
Book Synopsis This Twisted Path: My Journey Through Abuse and Addiction in Amish Country by : Monroe Miller
Download or read book This Twisted Path: My Journey Through Abuse and Addiction in Amish Country written by Monroe Miller and published by Lioncrest Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual abuse as a child. Opioid addiction in pill-riddled Appalachia. Rehab. Time in a mental facility. Monroe Miller, an Amish man, has experienced all of that heartbreak. But, with the support of his community and his loyal wife, Esther, he is now on the other side. With astounding vulnerability, he shares his story-the painful and the beautiful moments-to let you know that whatever you may be facing, you are not alone.
Book Synopsis Love's Journey Home by : Kelly Irvin
Download or read book Love's Journey Home written by Kelly Irvin and published by Harvest House Publishers, Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel Gless and Helen Crouch's first meeting nearly ends in tragedy because of Helen's wayward son. Despite all they have in common--the loss of their beloved spouses, the experience of raising their children alone, their rock-solid faith--it seems their chances of finding new love together are gone before they've even had an opportunity to get to know each other. Meanwhile, Helen's good friend, Annie Plank, is still reeling from the death of her husband when Gabriel's son Isaac walks into her bakery and into her life. His heart is still sore from a lost love, and they too struggle to find a place where their paths can join. As four people are called to go forward by faith and not by sight, each will receive a second chance at love -- Provided by the publisher.
Book Synopsis Why I Left the Amish by : Saloma Miller Furlong
Download or read book Why I Left the Amish written by Saloma Miller Furlong and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two ways to leave the Amish—one is through life and the other through death. When Saloma Miller Furlong’s father dies during her first semester at Smith College, she returns to the Amish community she had left twenty four years earlier to attend his funeral. Her journey home prompts a flood of memories. Now a mother with grown children of her own, Furlong recalls her painful childhood in a family defined by her father’s mental illness, her brother’s brutality, her mother’s frustration, and the austere traditions of the Amish—traditions Furlong struggled to accept for years before making the difficult decision to leave the community. In this personal and moving memoir, Furlong traces the genesis of her desire for freedom and education and chronicles her conflicted quest for independence. Eloquently told, Why I Left the Amish is a revealing portrait of life within—and without—this frequently misunderstood community.
Book Synopsis Leaving My Amish World: My True Story by : Eirene Eicher
Download or read book Leaving My Amish World: My True Story written by Eirene Eicher and published by Fearless Publishing House. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pregnant.Shunned.Heartbroken.This is Eirene's true story of how she left the Amish. Like most Amish children, Eirene had a carefree childhood in a tight-knit family life in the Old Order Amish community where she grew up Indiana. Though she had no indoor plumbing, no electricity, and no modern conveniences, her young life was full of joy. Horseback riding, reading, working with her father, and singing while making noodles and quilts with her sisters filled her days as she grew up. When Eirene becomes pregnant and marries at the tender age of 17, the harsh reality of her new life sets in. From getting snowed in by 10 feet of snow to carrying icy buckets of water inside just to make coffee or wash dishes, Eirene remains steadfast in providing the best care she can for her son. As she has four more children, her world revolves around them, and they bring her more joy than she could have ever imagined.Though she loves being a mother, and she loves her family, Eirene knows there has to be more to life than just being a housewife confined to her home with no money, no phone, and no transportation. Doesn't God have a bigger purpose for her? Wasn't she meant for more? When Eirene makes a Christian friend, she is hungry to learn more about the loving God who died for her and rose again, a God so unlike the one she'd learned about growing up Amish. Eirene knows God is calling her to leave so she can serve God. But is she willing to leave her family, her community, and everything she's ever known behind? Eirene prays that her story will be in encouragement to a struggling young mother out there wondering if life will ever change or get better.Please follow Eirene on Amazon to be notified of her new releases in the future.* "This book was so enthralling, I stayed up late into the night to find out what would happen next. Never before has a book taken me through such a roller coaster ride of emotions: suspense, anguish, sorrow, indignation, and joy. This woman's story touched my heart, and when she was hurt in the story, it was written so beautifully that I could feel her pain. Her story was so incredible, how she could still have such unwavering faith after everything that happened to her. So many things in this story were absolutely shocking and absolutely heart-wrenching, but there were also so many joyful parts that spoke of the cheerful memories of the author's childhood, and the close-knit Amish community. I am a true admirer of the Amish, but all Amish communities are different. We sometimes put the Amish on a pedestal, but they are human too, and also make mistakes just like us. This story was heartbreaking and raw, but most of all, it truly was inspirational. Once you start, you won't be able to put it down." -Ashley Emma, bestselling author of Undercover Amish, Amish Under Fire, and more
Book Synopsis Dust Between My Toes by : Wayne M. Weaver
Download or read book Dust Between My Toes written by Wayne M. Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Up Amish written by Ira Wagler and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times eBook bestseller! One fateful starless night, 17-year-old Ira Wagler got up at 2 AM, left a scribbled note under his pillow, packed all of his earthly belongings into in a little black duffel bag, and walked away from his home in the Amish settlement of Bloomfield, Iowa. Now, in this heartwarming memoir, Ira paints a vivid portrait of Amish life—from his childhood days on the family farm, his Rumspringa rite of passage at age 16, to his ultimate decision to leave the Amish Church for good at age 26. Growing Up Amish is the true story of one man’s quest to discover who he is and where he belongs. Readers will laugh, cry, and be inspired by this charming yet poignant coming of age story set amidst the backdrop of one of the most enigmatic cultures in America today—the Old Order Amish.
Book Synopsis Bonnet Strings by : Saloma Miller Furlong
Download or read book Bonnet Strings written by Saloma Miller Furlong and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age twenty, Saloma Miller left behind her Amish community in Burton, Ohio, and boarded a night train for Vermont, where she knew no one. In this poignant coming-of-age memoir, Saloma’s new life of freedom includes work as a waitress and plans to continue her education. Romance also blossoms with a Yankee toymaker. Soon, however, a vanload of people from her community, including the Amish bishop, arrive to take her back into the fold. Saloma’s freedom comes to an abrupt end when she goes back home to Ohio with them. Thus begins a years-long struggle of feeling torn between two worlds: will she remain Amish and embrace the sense of belonging and community her Amish life offers, or will she return to the newfound freedom she tasted in Vermont? Saloma settles into teaching in an Amish school and does her best to fit back into Amish ways, but a legacy of childhood abuse, struggles with an eating disorder, and questions of identity plague her. Her ties to the outside world remain, mostly through the quiet perseverance of the toymaker from Vermont. He keeps sending her cards, never giving up hope that their love could survive the strain of living in two different worlds. Bonnet Strings by Saloma Miller Furlong offers a universal story of overcoming adversity and a rare look inside an Amish community. Readers of Amish fiction and viewers of the PBS documentaries such as The Amish and The Amish: Shunned will find in it a true story: of woundedness and healing, of doubt and faith, and of the often competing desires for freedom and belonging.
Book Synopsis My Journey To Freedom by : Mattie Mullet
Download or read book My Journey To Freedom written by Mattie Mullet and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I hope this book helps clear up the general population's misconceptions and confusion about the Amish. I have read or heard things that aren't true, or even near the whole truth. This book is not written to harm anyone, but to provide information so that others might better understand how to help Amish people. There will be things written that don't apply to every community, but it's very real and true in the communities I lived in. I was born from generations of Amish and, at age 51, I did the unthinkable. I left everything I had ever known. That would've been impossible to do with all the shunning. If it hadn't been for my precious Jesus, I would have never found the strength to leave all that I'd ever known. Now it is my heart's sincere desire that everybody come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and experience the joy of salvation, and that includes my loved ones, the Amish.
Download or read book Becoming Amish written by Jeff Smith and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family living in one of America's wealthiest communities steps away from mainstream society and joins the horse-and-buggy Amish life. The family of Bill and Tricia Moser are seeking deeper connections to belief, community and purpose in life. The book is rare in Amish literature because it presents the perspective of people who grew up in modern America and immersed in the Amish world, offering both the fresh view of a newcomer and the intimate view of an insider. The book explores such aspects of Amish culture as faith, business, community connectedness, what it was like to learn to drive a horse and buggy and make the family's clothes.
Download or read book Broken Roads written by Ira Wagler and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightful memoir, the New York Times bestselling author of Growing Up Amish tries to reconcile his father, family, and heritage after leaving his faith behind. In Broken Roads, Ira Wagler uses his singular voice to unapologetically, but compassionately, illuminate the inner world of the Amish community through his story of life after leaving, what feels like his inevitable return to his Amish father, and how they might mend the relationship between them before it's too late. Through difficult reunions, struggles confronted, and betrayals revisited, Wagler explores burning questions of faith and identity shared by millions, whether Amish or not. Readers may recognize themselves along these paths with Wagler, as he grapples with choices, faith, family, the past, and the future.
Book Synopsis What the Amish Teach Us by : Donald B. Kraybill
Download or read book What the Amish Teach Us written by Donald B. Kraybill and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonresistance: No Pushback22. Death: A Good Farewell
Book Synopsis Life After Leaving My Amish World by : Eirene Eicher
Download or read book Life After Leaving My Amish World written by Eirene Eicher and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life after Leaving my Amish World gives the reader an idea of what a struggle it is to break away from the Amish community to follow their own convictions in Christianity. When Eirene Eicher leaves her Amish community with her five sons, the boys are shunned along with her and experience the pain of rejection at a very young age, causing them to be disenchanted with the entire Amish world. In her first book, Leaving my Amish World, Eirene's young, carefree Amish life comes to an abrupt halt when she gets pregnant at the young age of 16 and marries a man whose life is controlled by an addiction. Eirene has no idea of the struggle that was in store for her and her children as she navigates through the wilderness of life. Eirene bravely leaves the Amish with her sons and faces the unknown as a mother of seven sons total, overcoming challenges as she navigates this new world. What lies ahead for her and her family? Find out in Life After Leaving my Amish World. Eirene's victory shows our God's faithfulness! Her God did not let her down. "This is a wonderfully written book and as she continues her story from her first book. It is hard to put down! Follow Eirene on her life journey and learn truths about the Amish people and their ways." -Rebecca Strong, Amazon Reviewer "Eirene's writing will pull you in and keep you up all night reading. Leaving my Amish Word was hard to put down!" -Ashley Emma, USA Today Bestselling Amish Fiction Author
Download or read book My People, the Amish written by Joe Keim and published by Aneko Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My People, the Amish, Joe Keim paints a detailed picture of life behind the bonnets and buggies. More than a biography, this is an honest look at the heart-warming traditions that mingle with the deep-rooted legalism of the Amish community in Ashland, Ohio. Born, raised, and baptized in an Old Order Amish church, from childhood Joe Keim was taught that if he didn’t follow the twenty-two-page ordinance letter that governed his community, there was no way he could get to heaven. What started as a path of rebellion led Joe and his wife Esther to a caring group of Englisher Christians who would love them like family and show them how to live out their new found faith in Jesus Christ. Nine months after their traditional Amish wedding, Joe and Esther left family and friends forever to live openly for Christ, and endured shunning and excommunication with bold faith. Since then, the Lord has brought many former Amish people to Joe and Esther for help. Because of their passion for the Amish people and with the support of fellow believers, they have brought biblical truth to thousands of Amish through the ministry they founded in 2000, Mission to Amish People (MAP).
Download or read book Out of this World written by Mary Swander and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a severe allergic illness dictated that she grow all her own food, Swander found herself living in the midst of a large Amish community in Iowa. In this simple but profound memoir, she celebrates her time among the Amish, explores what it means to be a lone woman homesteader at the end of the 20th century, and ponders the quiet spirituality born of a life on the land.
Download or read book Plain and Simple written by Sue Bender and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I had an obsession with the Amish. Plan and simple. Objectively it made no sense. I, who worked hard at being special, fell in love with a people who valued being ordinary." So begins Sue Bender's story, the captivating and inspiring true story of a harried urban Californian moved by the beauty of a display of quilts to seek out and live with the Amish. Discovering lives shaped by unfamiliar yet comforting ideas about time, work, and community, Bender is gently coaxed to consider, "Is there another way to lead a good life?" Her journey begins in a New York men's clothing store. There she is spellbound by the vibrant colors and stunning geometric simplicity of the Amish quilts "spoke directly to me," writes Bender. Somehow, "they went straight to my heart." Heeding a persistent inner voice, Bender searches for Amish families willing to allow her to visit and share in there daily lives. Plain and Simple vividly recounts sojourns with two Amish families, visits during which Bender enters a world without television, telephone, electric light, or refrigerators; a world where clutter and hurry are replaced with inner quiet and calm ritual; a world where a sunny kitchen "glows" and "no distinction was made between the sacred and the everyday." In nine interrelated chapters--as simple and elegant as a classic nine-patch Amish quilt--Bender shares the quiet power she found reflected in lives of joyful simplicity, humanity, and clarity. The fast-paced, opinionated, often frazzled Bender returns home and reworks her "crazy-quilt" life, integrating the soul-soothing qualities she has observed in the Amish, and celebrating the patterns in the Amish, and celebrating the patterns formed by the distinctive "patches" of her own life. Charmingly illustrated and refreshingly spare, Plain and Simple speaks to the seeker in each of us.
